Top Five Galleries: Francis Bacon; Joan Eardley; Lee Miller

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Magnificent retrospective of the artist who captured our lusts and despairs and our cruelties and loves on canvas. Flesh wrestles faith in a brutal arena of a painter who saw mankind as mere meat and yet believed that, since he was nothing, he might as well make the most of it. His glorious paintings are the outcome. Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1 (www.tate.org.uk 020-7887 8888), until Jan 4, 2009, free

2 JOAN EARDLEY

The Glasgow artist who captured the face of the Scottish people. Through works that could range from a tough picture of life in the urban